Two recent articles by Salonia et al. (from the Fourth International Consultation for Sexual Medicine or ICSM 2015) have provided us with a series of nine recommendations to clinicians regarding sexual rehabilitation after radical prostatectomy for localized prostate cancer. … READ MORE …
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Bill Martin is a long-time reader of this news service and a member of our social network. Some time ago, he wrote a rather “different” book about his rediscovery of himself as “a man” after treatment for prostate cancer.
Bill has let us know that, as his New Year’s gift to the planet, he is making that book and other information available free, on line, to potential readers. … READ MORE …
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Salvage radiation adds to the side effects of surgery and may halt the progress made towards healing. Healing takes time. On the other hand, we have learned that adjuvant or early salvage radiation has better oncological outcomes than waiting, the earlier the better (see this link). … READ MORE …
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Slowly but surely we are seeing increasing recognition in the clinical community of the need to ensure that prostate cancer patients and their spouses/partners really understand the likely consequences of treatment. … READ MORE …
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An article in the June issue of the Canadian Urological Association Journal offers preliminary evidence from a randomized clinical trial that men treated for 6 months with a short-acting LHRH agonist may recover normal serum testosterone (T) levels faster than those treated for the same time with a long-acting LHRH agonist. … READ MORE …
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Our knowledge about the rate of recovery of erectile function after radical prostatectomy really isn’t very good. Rates of recovery seem to vary greatly based on how erectile function and dysfunction are defined, how data are collected, how much time elapses between surgery and measurement of erectile function, and even the specific population studied. … READ MORE …
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